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It's that time of year already, the winter is approaching and with Bestival only days away it's time to take a look as what our favourite freezing festivals will be offering this coming winter. Last winter the Relentless Freeze Festival kicked things off with some great riding and music, and Snowbombing finished things off with a bang.

The year looks the same, as the Relentless Freeze Festival is already gearing up for another fantastic pre-season bash and it won't be long until the likes of the Meribel's Little World Festival, the Altitude Festival and Snowbombing announce their plans. But to start the winter 2012 salivating, here's what the first big event of the winter has on offer.

The Relentless Freeze Festival

London's big winter Festival will be with us again this October and has announced a fantastic line-up of snowsports and music. This year's event has been cut down to two days from three, though this means we'll have Sunday to recover from all the excitement, the insane riding, the awesome music and of course, the Jaëgermeister Lorry.

Last year's event included an awesome line-up of local and international snowboarders and skiers, the Jeremy Jones Deeper premiere and Mark Ronson on stage. Jamie Nicholls and James Woods waved the flag for the Brits in front of a huge home crowd and world class athletes such as Seppe Smits, Seb Toutant and Jon Olsson all on show.

This year's event looks to continue in the same fashion. The FIS have announced that the huge 32m high Big Air jump will be a World Cup event, which should mean the likes of Seb Toutant, Janne Korpi and Jamie Nicholls will be wowing us with their huge double-cork variations and Xbox-esque tricks. There will also be the EU vs The World competition, which is a real crowd pleaser with two snowboarders and skiers from each continent going up against each other in an one-on-one competition with three disciplines to win: Best trick, Trick selector and the always popular Crow judge.

Last year we were treated to Mark Ronson, Roni Size and Pendulum and this year doesn't disappoint either. Friday night see's Dub Pistols, Beadryman, Azari & III and Zane Lowe, followed by the headline act, Groove Armada present Red Light. Saturday also have a cracking line-up on the stage with Spector, Rizzles Kicks, Summer Camp, The Joy Formidable and Everything Everything warming the Freeze Festival crowds, before The Streets close out the weekend.

Hopefully is will be as amazing as last October's event and there may even be some more treat announced closer to the time, such as last year's Deeper premiere.